Clik here to view.
A famous and dilapidated midcoast home was demolished by fire
A well-known home that’s been falling apart for years along Route 1 in Searsport burned down on Wednesday night in a fire that was authorized by the town. The property at 386 East Main St. just sold...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brunswick aerospace company conducts largest rocket test yet
Brunswick Landing-based bluShift Aerospace completed on Thursday what it’s calling its most powerful engine test yet on its next-generation hybrid rocket called Marvel. The goal was to clean up some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Historic sea captains’ homes still abound in the midcoast after one fell
This story first appeared in the Midcoast Update, a newsletter published every Tuesday and Friday morning. Sign up here to receive stories about the midcoast delivered to your inbox each week, along...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brunswick questions airport group’s tax benefits after foam spill
Some Brunswick-area residents are continuing to demand more accountability from the organization that runs the local airport after toxic firefighting foam spilled out of one of its hangars and into...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Burnham man is missing
Editor’s note: Authorities have safely located Edward Lebel. Police are seeking assistance in locating a 75-year-old Burnham man who was last seen leaving his home at about 9 a.m. on Sunday morning....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Despite Maine conflicts over political signs, they may not even work
It’s election season, which means it’s almost impossible to go anywhere without seeing political campaign signs in people’s yards or along the sides of roads. And almost as common as the sight of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Missing Burnham man found safe
A missing Burnham man has been found safe. Edward Lebel, 75, was reported missing Sunday, according to Shannon Moss, a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety. Lebel was last seen...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A midcoast art exhibit is all about changing your mind
Bo Dennis has been a farmer for 16 years, and when he was younger, he swore he would never grow flowers. According to his thinking at the time, they were frilly and unnecessary and seemed to be a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rockland is making much-needed repairs to its breakwater lighthouse
This story first appeared in the Midcoast Update, a newsletter published every Tuesday and Friday morning. Sign up here to receive stories about the midcoast delivered to your inbox each week, along...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Midcoast town extends pause on large retail developments
Nearly a year after it was put in place, the Lincolnville Select Board on Monday night approved another extension of the moratorium on new commercial developments throughout the town. That means the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A midcoast Halloween celebration will feature homegrown horror stories
Maine has long inspired spooky stories. Of course, the king of horror himself, Stephen King, is famous for scary stories set in Maine. But the state has also been the setting for other horror buffs,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Massachusetts men allegedly trafficked drugs into Waldo County
Federal prosecutors have charged nine men from Massachusetts with conspiring to bring fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine into Waldo County and sell it there. The alleged traffickers were from areas...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Millions of dollars worth of Linda Bean’s art collection will go up for auction
Paintings worth millions of dollars from the estate of Linda Bean, the Maine businesswoman and heiress to the L.L. Bean company who died earlier this year, will go up for auction in New York next...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Midcoast builder who defrauded clients of $437K won’t serve prison time
A former midcoast builder must pay $385,000 in restitution for defrauding 57 of his clients, but he won’t serve any prison time for the theft, according to a sentencing handed down in Rockland on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hundreds descend on one of Maine’s most famous trick-or-treating spots
The 300-yard span of Cedar Street in Belfast was swarmed Thursday night by hundreds of trick-or-treaters from across the region, many of them drawn by unseasonably warm weather and the neighborhood’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Offshore wind is on the ballot in a midcoast legislative race
Maine’s ongoing efforts to develop an offshore wind industry based out of the midcoast are a central issue in the race between two candidates seeking to represent the Searsport area in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
3 groups seek to buy UMaine’s Belfast center in 2nd round of bids
After the University of Maine System rescinded its earlier offer to sell the Hutchinson Center in Belfast to a local evangelical church, the same number of groups has made bids to buy the property as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clearing of trees on Sears Island concerns area residents
Workers have recently cleared some trees on the midcoast island that Maine is trying to develop as a staging facility for its proposed offshore wind industry. While state transportation officials say...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wiscasset is trying to develop housing on former Maine Yankee land
Wiscasset hopes to develop 110 units of housing on town-owned land that was formerly part of the Maine Yankee nuclear facility. The town has just gotten a boost to that project: in late October,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Maine’s midcoast antiques corridor boasts fascinating finds
There are a few things you can count on seeing while driving up Route 1 through the midcoast. Of course, there are lobster shacks, beaches and signs directing drivers down one peninsula after another....
View Article